Beef Invictus
Revolutionary Positivity
I'm surprised to hear you siding with the organization on this one. Usually I agree with you.
The media is always going to be the media regardless of whether there's truth to what's being said or not (and in both cases this time there was some truth to it). The media isn't part of the organization nor being paid millions of dollars (to under perform no less...). The staff, front office, and players are. This isn't some kind of hockey game where we can make some loose argument that standing up to a player is going to change things. If the players or management mess with the media like they have been it comes off as unprofessional and feeds into it more then anything.
That's because if any team played even remotely close to the bullies today they would be in the penalty box literally all the time.
The Flyers haven't changed in that they usually go in-house for a lot of front office and staff positions, Snider is still being Snider, they always seem to sign some useless goon(s) and sometimes to a ridiculous contract while giving them two minutes of ice-time every game, and tend to give too much leeway to certain people.
You also have to admit that the whole "Flyers hockey" concept of hitting everything that moves and being tough is pretty much ingrained within the Flyers culture at this point from the fans upward.
I'm of the opinion that they do harm to the franchise and fanbase by spewing their journalistic diarrhea.
It's nice that one guy is actually asking hard questions, but I get the sense that he's doing it to create sensationalism. Not to actually hold the org accountable. So in that way he's no better than the TMZ wannabes.